Psalms

¹ A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

² Fair and beautiful in elevation, the joy of all the earth, Is Mount Zion [the City of David] in the far north, The city of the great King.

³ God, in her palaces, Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

⁴ For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They [came and] passed by together.

⁵ They saw it, then they were amazed; They were stricken with terror, they fled in alarm.

⁶ Panic seized them there, And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.

⁷ With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish.

⁸ As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah.

⁹ We have thought of Your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of Your temple.

¹⁰ As is Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness, justice).

¹¹ Let Mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice Because of Your [righteous] judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion, go all around her; Count her towers,

¹³ Consider her ramparts, Go through her palaces, That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

¹⁴ For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even until death.